Sergey Prokofyev - Architect . Director . Producer . Immersive Architecture & Art . Berlin .


Sergey Prokofyev  dipl. ing. architect and creative director of Studio Schwitalla. Currently lives and works in Berlin. Sergey received his Diploma in Architecture in 2007 from the Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Ukraine. 

With extensive experience in both architecture and film-making, Sergey explores unique approaches to immersive storytelling. He specializes in using innovative techniques to create immersive films that push the boundaries of traditional communication tools. Sergey incorporates a range of cinematic methods to bring architectural representations to life, carefully crafting the visual experience to showcase the interplay between space, movement, and action. By synthesizing sound and virtual space with movement, he creates an environment that challenges the limits of human perception, drawing viewers into the content in a truly immersive way. His immersive projects were awarded in different international film festivals.

Through collaboration with neuroscientists, he focused on studying the processes associated with the mechanisms of human perception and behavior in the city.


Contact

mail@prokofyevsergey.com


Awards

  • 2023 Winner - Short Contest. “The Inner Island" Centennial of the Planetarium
  • 2023. Excellence Award - "SUPREMATISM. The day before" International Festival of Science Visualization (Tokyo, Japan) 
  • 2022. Excellence Award - "LABYRINTH" SAT FEST The festival of immersive cinema (Montreal, Canada)
  • 2021. Best Experimental Film - "LABYRINTH" Dome Under Festival (Melbourne, Australia)
  • 2021. Best Artistic Short Film - "LABYRINTH" Dome Fest West (Los Angeles, U.S.)
  • 2021. Nomination - "LABYRINTH" #BestOfEarth
    FullDome Festival, (Jena, Germany) Dome Fest West, (Los Angeles, USA) Fulldome UK, (Plymouth, UK) Dome Under Festival, (Melbourne, Australia) 
  • 2021. Best Film - “Urban Levitation” Immersphere Fulldome Festival  (Brazil)    
  • 2021. Xurado Novo Award - “Urban Levitation” INTERSECCIÓN Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival (A Coruña, Spain)
  • 2021. Nomination - “Urban Levitation” - Horsetooth Intl. Film Festival #HIFFCO  (U.S.)
  • 2021. Best Art & Experiment Film - "SUPREMATISM. The day before" #BestOfEarth 
    FullDome Festival, (Jena, Germany) Dome Fest West, (Los Angeles, USA) Fulldome UK, (Plymouth, UK) Dome Under Festival, (Melbourne, Australia) 
  • 2021.  Juror's Choice Award - "SUPREMATISM. The day before" Dome Fest West  (Los Angeles, U.S.)
  • 2021. Best Experimental Film - "SUPREMATISM" Toronto Independent Film Festival of Cift (Toronto, Canada)
  • 2021. Best Experimental Film - "SUPREMATISM" Phoenix Shorts (Ottawa, Canada)
  • 2021. Best Experimental Film - "SUPREMATISM" International World Film Awards (Košice, Slovakia)
  • 2021. Best Experimental Film - "SUPREMATISM" Rome Movie Awards (Rome, Italy)
  • 2019. Best Immersive Short-Film - “Urban Levitation” - Immersive Film Festival (Espinho, Portugal)
  • 2019. Best Architectural Dome Film - “Urban Levitation” - DTLA Film Festival (Los Angeles, U.S.)
  • 2019. Nomination - “Urban Levitation” Jena Fulldome Festival (Jena, Germany) 
  • 2019. Excellence Award - “Vertical Street / City” International Festival of Science Visualization (Tokyo, Japan) 

Immersive Shows 

  • 2023 ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL, (Sibiu, Romania),“SUPREMATISM. The day before”, “The Inner Island" 
  • 2023 VIRTUAL REALITY EXPERIENCE - Digital Art Zurich, “The Inner Island"  
  • 2023 FUTURE VISION LAB -SAT Fest compilation at the Contemporary Culture Lab, Taiwan, “LABYRINTH”
  • 2023 FULLDOME ART HOUSE - IFSV 2023 short film competition at Galax City, (Tokyo, Japan),“SUPREMATISM. The day before”
  • 2023 NOW OR NEVER - newest large-scale festival celebrating digital art and future thinking (Melbourne, Australia), “LABYRINTH”
  • 2023 EINSTEIN IN THE DOME - Berliner Stiftungswoche. Zeiss-Großplanetarium (Berlin, Germany), “Project KopfKino”
  • 2023 360° Immersive Dome - NewImages Festival (Paris, France) , “LABYRINTH”
  • 2023 PARALLÈLES - The immersive film festival. Society for Arts &Technology (Montreal, Canada), “SUPREMATISM. The day before”
  • 2022 EINSTEIN IN THE DOME - Berlin Science Week. Zeiss-Großplanetarium (Berlin, Germany), “Project KopfKino”   
  • 2022 INTERSECCIÓN – The Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival (A Coruña, Spanien), “The Inner Island"           
  • 2022 TROPICALISZT - In celebration of the 150th. anniversary of the University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar, Jena Planetarium, “The Inner Island"
  • 2022 IMMERSDIFF -FullDome / The experimental frontier. CULTVR (Wales, UK), “LABYRINTH”                                             
  • 2022 SAT FEST FILMS LAURÉATS- The immersive film festival. Society for Arts & Technology (Montreal, Canada),“LABYRINTH”
  • 2021 INTERSECCIÓN – The Contemporary Audiovisual Art Festival (A Coruña, Spanien), “Urban Levitation”  
  • 2021 - 2022 WONDERDOME - A 360 immersiveexperience of art, music and film. (Sydney, Australia), “LABYRINTH”,“Urban Levitation”
photo: Berlin Science Week/ photothek
photo: Market Hall
photo: Myriam Ménard
photo: Myriam Ménard

©  Sergey Prokofyev, 2024